On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:21:39AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 07/17/2013 12:58 AM, Ding Yi Chen wrote:
> >You still have not addressed the third party programs and scripts
> >that monitor /var/log/messages
> 
> We honestly cant keep progress and cleanup in the distribution back
> out of fear of breaking some third party programs.

Irrespective of whether journald is good or bad, this is a dumb
argument.

The whole purpose of distros (of *computers*) is to run software, some
of it not included in the distro, some it highly customized scripts
that people have written themselves.

Text log files are not some sort of esoteric feature that hardly
anyone uses.

Rich.

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